When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.